Tabulae eclipsium
work by Peuerbach
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Georg von Peuerbach, an Austrian mathematician and astronomer, was instrumental in reviving the technical understanding of Ptolemy's astronomical ideas in Europe. He is known for his work Tabulae eclipsium (c. 1459), a set of eclipse tables based on the Alfonsine Tables. This influential work circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printed edition in 1514. Peuerbach also contributed to the understanding of planetary motion and the use of sines in Europe, influencing later astronomers like Nicolaus Copernicus.12
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